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• Social Determinants of Health May Drive CVD Risk in Black Americans Researchers found "consistently" higher risk in Bblack vs Wwhite Americans, but the difference was reduced after adjustment for social determinants of health like income and health insurance.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2021
• Alert FDA Authorizes Boosters for Moderna, J&J, Allows Mix-and-Match The FDA has followed the advice of its advisory panels, approving additional doses of Moderna and J&J vaccines, and opening up people's options by letting them switch vaccine type for their booster.
  FDA Approvals, October 20, 2021
• How Likely Are You to Get a COVID-19 Booster Shot? As the number of Americans getting COVID-19 vaccines has risen, there is a heightened push to provide booster shots to some vaccinated persons to ensure that their immunity continues.
  Medscape Reader Polls, October 20, 2021
• Antithrombotic Therapy Not Warranted in COVID-19 Outpatients In stable patients with COVID-19, use of aspirin or apixaban did not reduce the rate of the composite of all-cause mortality, thromboembolism, MI, stroke, or hospitalization in the ACTIV-4B trial.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2021
• Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Highly Protective in 12-18 Age Group - U.S. CDC Study The Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine was 93% effective in preventing hospitalizations among those aged 12 to 18, according to an analysis released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 19, 2021
• Alert FDA Clears 5-Minute Test for Early Dementia CognICA, a 5-minute, computerized cognitive assessment delivered on an iPad, offers several advantages over traditional pen-and-paper-based cognitive tests, the developer says.
  FDA Approvals, October 20, 2021
• Preterm Delivery Raises Lifetime Hypertension Risk Hypertension risk was significantly higher 10 years after preterm delivery and remained elevated up to 43 years, a study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2021
• Pandemic Drives Uptick in Need for Mental Health Services Despite rising mental health care needs, more than 3 in 4 US adults say they always or usually receive the social and emotional support need.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2021
• FDA Proposes New Rule for Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids The long-awaited proposal would offer a new category of affordable over-the-counter hearing aids for nearly 30 million Americans who report mild or moderate hearing loss.
  WebMD Health News, October 20, 2021
• Coalition Fights to Keep Medicare Support for Hospital at Home If CMS and other payers cover it, the technology-driven trend of at-home care will affect the roles of both hospital and community physicians in acute and post-acute care.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2021
• Five Years Out, Sleeve Gastrectomy Safer Than Gastric Bypass An analysis of a Medicare administrative database finds about 30% lower mortality associated with sleeve gastrectomy.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2021
• Few Poorly Prepped Colonoscopies Repeated Within 1 Year National registry data show more timely repeat colonoscopy procedures for younger patients and those with severe disease.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2021
• State Agency Inadvertently Releases Employees Vaccine Status Oregon's central administrative agency inadvertently released the COVID-19 vaccination status of more than 40,000 state employees to two newspapers. The newspapers said they will not publish the data.
  Associated Press, October 20, 2021
• White House Announces Vaccination Plans for Younger Children The White House said it has purchased enough vaccine to immunize all 28 million of the country's younger children once the necessary approvals are in place.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2021
• Myth Busters: Does This Food Cause Cancer? According to the American Cancer Society, about 1 in 5 cancers in the US and about 1 in 6 cancer deaths can be linked to poor nutrition, being overweight, not exercising, or alcohol.
  WebMD Health News, October 20, 2021
• NYC Requiring Vaccine for Cops, Firefighters, City Workers The mandate affecting the nation's largest police department and more than 100,000 other Big Apple workers carries a Nov. 1 deadline for getting the first vaccine dose, de Blasio announced.
  Associated Press, October 20, 2021
• US Surgeons Successfully Test Pig Kidney Transplant in Human Patient For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient's immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant.
  Reuters Health Information, October 20, 2021
• CHEST 2021 Comorbidities Larger Factor Than Race in COVID ICU Deaths? Although ICU mortality rates for Black patients were higher than for other racial groups, average length of stay was similar, suggesting that comorbidities may partly explain excess deaths.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2021
• More Than 1800 WA Workers Fired, Leave Jobs Due to Vaccine Mandate Of those who remain employed, the state said that 95% were vaccinated, not including the 1927 who got either a medical or religious exemption and an accommodation to stay on the job.
  Associated Press, October 20, 2021
• US Labor Department Warns 3 GOP States Over COVID Rules The threats were sent to Arizona, South Carolina, and Utah as OSHA prepares to adopt much more far-reaching vaccination and testing rules affecting 80 million Americans.
  Associated Press, October 20, 2021